Property
With auctions soaring, the spring selling season is in full swing. However, beyond this uniquely Australian spectacle lies a high-stakes, high-pressure process that buyers, sellers and conveyancers must navigate
Practice
Some NSW conveyancers are struggling to stay afloat under the weight of increasing professional indemnity insurance costs, according to industry participants
Economy
Despite an overall gloomy outlook in two new surveys, Australians are hopeful of a property price boost over the next 12 months.
Regulation
As a new survey paints a picture of mistrust in the property industry, practitioners are reminded by consumer watchdogs of the need for accuracy and transparency when it comes to trust accounts.
Practice
State Small and Family Business Minister Andrea Michaels will give a speech recognising the pivotal role of conveyancers at the event covering cyber, and AML threats.
Regulation
eConveyancing regulator ARNECC comes under the spotlight as Senate committee hears how a lack of enforcement power and scant resourcing has delayed competition in the $330 million market.
Practice
There’s a huge demand for new recruits in conveyancing but sector leaders contend the entry-level diplomas inadequately prepare them for the responsibilities that come with the heavily regulated profession. It’s time to toughen up.
Property
EXCLUSIVE: As part of an election pledge, the federal government set a target of 1.2 million homes to be built within five years to help ease a critical shortage of supply. Critics have called it unrealistic, but Clare O’Neil, the minister overseeing the plan, is staring them down and vows to walk the talk – backing large-scale development, even in her own well-to-do neighbourhood.
Market
Unit approvals fall by a third in August, weighing heavily on government hopes that higher density homes will help solve the housing crisis.
Market
The 115,970 construction industry apprentices who are in training is 4.6 per cent fewer than a year earlier, according to latest figures.
Market
Findings show the way new homes across the country are taxed has to change, according to the Property Council.
Regulation
Ongoing training in Artificial Intelligence for property professionals is a must as pace of technological change is fastest in generations, industry conference hears.
Economy
Economists remain confident that the latest CPI data points towards a November cash rate cut.
Economy
Businesses on the Housing 100 builders list together delivered a combined 64,407 homes in 2024/25, up 11 per cent from last year’s 58,011.
Market
Aging skilled workforce and competition from other industries holding back residential house builds.
Practice
Australian Institute of Conveyancers Vice President Linda expressed her concerns in Australian Conveyancer’s new Wisdom section of the monthly magazine.
Economy
Cost of living crisis easing but more Reserve Bank rate cuts are needed for growth and jobs prospects in 2026, according to leading economist.
Regulation
Mandatory climate reporting has been described by ASIC Chair Joe Longo as ‘the biggest change to corporate reporting in a generation’.
Regulation
Most witnesses stressed the need for greater power for ARNECC as well as support from Federal agencies.
Economy
Rate-cut fueled optimism, and the prospect of first home buyer incentives, are driving demand across Australia.
Market
Latest Regional Movers Index – which tracks migration from capital cities to the regions – fell by nearly 20 per cent in June.
Economy
But annually there has been a decline of 4.2 per cent, suggesting sellers and buyers alike are hesitant about proceeding, SQM Research’s Louis Christopher says.
Market
The 180,500 figure for homes started in 2024-25 is almost 60,000 short of the government’s annual target of 240,000, Master Builders Australia Shane Garrett says.
Regulation
Consumer protection regulator Natasha Mann highlights stance after revelations about investigation into suspended high-profile estate agent Josh Tesolin.
Economy
With listings 20 per cent below average and values climbing, Cotality’s Tim Lawless is one of the experts who says the supply-demand imbalance could push annual growth into double digits.
Market
Property Council’s Matt Kandellaars says drop in home building approvals during July was disappointing.
Compliance
In the countdown to next year’s anti-money laundering and counter terrorism funding law reforms, conveyancers have feared an additional burden on their businesses. But the man leading the changes says the focus is on the criminals, not the small businesses genuinely trying to do the right thing.
Economy
Economists suggest unexpected rise in CPI will mean a September rate cut is unlikely – but expect the RBA will trim in November.
Market
Sub-penthouse in swanky Sydney precinct confiscated as part of long-running investigation into excise fraud involving the import of alcohol.
Technology
Regulator says using a MyGov-style, multi factor authentication-enabled portal is the best way best scams that are costing millions of dollars.
Technology
Unwitting or greedy accomplices are handing over their details so that fraudsters can set up complex stings and funnel funds out of the reach of Australian authorities.
Market
We need to be reinforcing verbally and consistently that we’re never going to e-mail BSB and account numbers to clients, industry leader Brook Durling says – as new figures show the threat of devastating multi-million-dollar losses is growing.
Regulation
In an exclusive interview, AUSTRAC chief executive Brendan Thomas tells conveyancers why the new AML regime is so important and why its built to support, not sink, small operators.
Market
Property Council, Master Builders Australia and the Housing Industry Association all back government moves to address National Accord backlog.
Economy
Research shows 2,127 capital homes scheduled for auction this week – marking the first time auction volumes have risen above 2,000 since late-June.
Market
Industry association PrefAUS has ambitious targets of 30 per cent of all construction by 2033 – and wants to be a big player at the Brisbane Olympics.
Market
Economists say scrapping the property purchase tax should be high on the agenda on the back of the government’s Productivity Roundtable.
Economy
But the nation has been down in the dumps for the second longest period since the respected Melbourne Institute Consumer Sentiment Index began its survey 50 years ago.
Economy
Banking and real estate analysts are forecasting a double digit lift in property prices over the next 18 months.
Economy
The 3.5 per cent quarterly growth in the number of investment loans follows two consecutive falls.
Technology
The switch to eConveyancing will apply to mortgages to begin with, followed by caveats in January and full transfers in August 2026.
Economy
Buyers and sellers waiting for the Reserve Bank’s next move and the traditional boomtime that is the spring selling season.
Market
Strata Community Association says the government’s mandatory Body Corporate Certificate’s $84.10 cost does not cover the work they do – and say they should be allowed to charge $220-plus.
Practice
When you’re dealing with large sums of money and the average home price is over a million dollars, people want the reassurance of dealing with another person. That’s the view of lawyer Brian Fang, who is the focus of this Australian Conveyancer Q&A.
Technology
Scamwatch has been notified of losses totalling $12,237,870 in false billing cases – which is where these crimes are recorded – in the first five months of 2025.
Market
The practice of conveyancers handing up to $500 kick-back payments to real estate to land work is wrong and “unethical”, says the Victorian AIC president. And she has 1,260 petition signatures to back up as a case to regulators to ban it.
Market
REIQ has warned real estate agents of the possibility of delays and disruption to auctions of properties in strata buildings.
Market
Just a small percentage of the Anti-Money Laundering-related fines handed out to UK conveyancers and lawyers are for handling the proceeds of crime.
Economy
The Housing Industry Association (HIA) latest report will be good news for government hoping to see the Housing Accord back on track.
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